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Echo, 2005. Book. Good. Paperback. Book. Clean solid copy. Unmarked pages. Would be very good but for 2 light scratches to the front cover. George F. Babbitt is an ordinary man whose life undergoes climactic changes in this brilliant classic novel about middle America, first published in 1922. 8vo - over 7ï¿½" - 9ï¿½" tall. Book..

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Williston, Vermont, U.S.A.: Blackwell Pub, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. VG book in a Good jacket. Clean tightly bound copy. Unmarked pages. dj chip out of the bottom. A very nice clean copy! Generations of school teachers have railed bitterly against the bad grammar and slovenly pronunciation of their pupils. Parents have for decades bemoaned the swearing and sloppy diction of their children. Public figures become enraged about jargon and linguistic corruption in the nation's press. Employers deplore the inarticulacy and limited vocabularies of their staff. And everyone knows that spelling and punctuation are not what they were. What is all this complaining about? Why do otherwise sane people become so apoplectic about other people's language? What are the roots of this linuistic prejudice? The authors of this book take a dispassionate look at negative attitudes to language use and try to account for the various types of hostility. They argue that most types of "bad" language…
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